An American soldier is being detained in North Korea after bolting across the border and effectively handing himself over to the regime run by Kim Jong Un. NBC News’ Keir Simmons has more details.
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why out all places would you desert to North Korea?
Because the US can’t touch N. Korea
Go save all the us soldiers from crazy joseph biden north korea ask them to go get safety from your emergency essentials, thats good economics give them back after josephs in jail. When its safe for everyone around the world
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Spy
N.K whats your name, King sir😀 ok clear tied him on a missile
I live in north Korea on the dmz zone and I didn’t see nobody come across the line. This a syopp
cross into an area without proper paperwork , get subdued . brought it on themself
Show North Korea American-style freedom?
This is gonna get interesting, oh these Americans😄
No one can fix stupid.
They can keep him.
We do not want him back. What a piece of work.
Why do I get the feeling we have another Otto Warmbier tragedy coming?
No, just some insane guy who nobody prolly cares about
With his departure, the fighting ability on both sides has significantly improved.
How come North Korea shoots people running from North Korea but they don’t shoot at people running towards them
For every one they loose the get one back. Sounds like a good deal. Keep him there.
I salute Kim Jong Un because he was right about America… I cannot even get the US ARMY to admit the truth about why they discharged me… So since the US ARMY don’t have the integrity to admit the truth AMERICA… Tell the US ARMY to remove INTEGRITY from the Army Core Values since I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS INTEGRITY!!!
USA is 32 trillion in debt and is a failed state. DPRK might not be so bad… especially if he’s housed, fed and used as a propaganda tool.
just another spy
Leave him there, somebody that ignorant and entitled should not have any efforts done to “recover” him only so he can do more dumb stuff in Society. Let them have this problem and the soldier can have his wish too. Don’t complain and or start crying you don’t like it
They can keep that genius.
Leave him there. He obviously hates America and would rather be in North Korea, so leave him there
Maybe he wanted to make friends with the North Koreans – as Dennis Rodman was able to accomplish in the past.
Glad he went North… They will take care of him…😊
If he can play basketball, he may have a chance of survival.
Can’t survive North Korea’s firing squad.
“play for your freedom.” -Dave Chappelle
They’ll “ask” him all about what he did in the Army.
@Spike’s Pa He was being a fool in the army which was why he fled to North Korea in the first place by evading accountability.
@Islandstylesagree let him rot in NK.
He did all of this, to be on the news. That’s the truth when you think about it. It only costed him his life
Thats my guess also. Its just like some childish tiktok stunt for attention.
Rocket man give us our soldier back immediately!!!
🇺🇸🦅
NO
He will miss rap music 🎶 in North Korea .
This guy did not study North Korea at all
He might find out he was actually privileged upon defecting to North Korea.
Leave him there
let it be their problem now 😭
Curtisgolphintonorthkorea
Why did the chicken cross the road!? 😅😂😅😅😅😅😅😅 Seriously!!!!..
This soldier was going back to the United States to get court-martialed.
He didn’t “wander” accidentally away from his tour group. This was 100% intentional; I BET he defected.
Avoid dishonorable discharge at home…. become a propaganda piece for the Kim Regime.
Call me paranoid, just have a feeling – it’s probably just gas LOL
This Black dude crossed into one of the most xenophobic countries
in the world. What a dumb imbecile…Apparently, he had 10 years in
the Army and was a private 2nd class. Talk about a demotion.
What a traitor , obviously not one of our Nations finest if he had been in a South Korean jail and was due to be discharged on arrival back in the states prob dishonorably.
This is like when you get in trouble at school and you overreact by planning to run away from home
A deserter, and a may create big trouble problems on both sides.
It’s got to be the white man’s fault
And he will be made CO of the US Army by Tubberville.
Leave him there
Raid Area 51 challenge, North Korean Edition. Let’s see them freedoms.
No body cares
He probably was tired of the American racism inside the military
right…his assaults and racism towards SK police have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Lol, he’s gonna get a whole bunch of hard r’s bombarded on him by the North Koreans.
@Darth Plagueis They like black people you didn’t know? In the Vietnam War, they sent letters to the black soldiers telling them to go home this isn’t your war it is the white man’s war
Very beautiful🐢
North Korea will want to trade this guy for something that they don’t have. 🤔 Three Big Mac Meals with extra fries. 🤣
Things will not go well for the defector as he had previously been arrested for assaulting South Korean civilians. He has really nothing to offer the North Koreans intel wise. The North Koreans look upon South Korean civilians as oppressed brothers and they will look upon the defector as having assaulted one of their own. He will be considered a Yankee criminal by the North Koreans. Initially he will be debriefed for many days. He will initially be kept in a rather Spartan existence and observed 24/7. The North Koreans have their own interrogators who will be itching to have a crack at a real life American. Eventually he will be ‘introduced’ to the North Korean propaganda machine where they will attempt to ‘educate’ him on North Korea and the Kim regime. The North Koreans will not put up with any gaff and it will be very dangerous for him to have a change of heart and request to go back. The North Koreans will be looking for the opportunity to have a press conference where he can denounce the US presence in South Korea. Any request on his part to leave would be considered blasphemy as they consider their country to be paradise so who would want to leave? They may require a period of labor from him to help ‘pay’ for his upkeep. The best that he can hope for is that Dennis Rodman intervenes and tries to arrange his return or he requests asylum in an African country which has relations with the North Koreans,
“Debriefed”, the grand daddy of euphemisms.
Well at least we know the question if North Korea is racist
This is fake news!! Clearly only a mentally handicapped person would do something that stupid and they don’t let the mentally handicapped in the US military via federal law!!!
I’d rather be at an American military prison than in North Korea
Make me wonder if this guy can be a traitor
The only thing I can say is bye bye Birdie
He probably was on that crack just like Joe Biden. Mine all f***** up. He thought he was running home
That American soldier wants to die in N. Korea.
Let’s be real they are going to harvest his organs.
How many blacks are in DPRK?
He’s probably gonna be the only black guy in North Korea.
He is in L❤VE with Kim Jong Un’s younger sister and no one can separate him from her.
😂
Now we know why united snakes of america uses other countrirs armies, because their own solders surrender to the enemies. before even the war begins .
“My Bad, Mr. Kim Jong Un, let me make a U-Turn” Private Travis King, U.S Army Deserter.
😄 🤣 😂
Well at least he is the first black citizen in North Korea prison.. 😅🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️💯💯🫡🤔🤔🧐
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The western soldiers knew there was nothing to do. If they chase after him IN North Korea, NK will see that as an act of war, and both sides have nuclear weapons in different ways. He’s now gotta suffer forever bc we’re not going to beg NK to let him go
Travis is picking up Hunter some really good cocaine.
North Korea is going to try and get information from this guy only to realize how dumb he his. 😅
Just another traitor like Bergdahl. Let the communists have him. Sorry for the shame he brought to his family’s name, but it was his choice.
Let the dumba$$ rot in North Korea…I hope the U.S. doesn’t spend tons of money and resources on trying to get King free from North Korea. And I hope the U.S. doesn’t do another unfair trade like they did with Brittany Griner when they traded her for Merchant of Death!!!
Instead of US military discipline, he rather dies in N. Korea.
Kim jong un will dance Gangnam style with that soldier…..
He can stay in NK for eternity. Don’t bother, he went on his own volition.
I think he defected. Odds are if he did they will treat him well, but you never know, he isn’t white like others I’ve seen do this.
Correction, he is not detained
Currently his golden for the North Koreans
Here are cretins and fools, the Russians do not have fifth – generation aircraft, but there are 4++, learn to match
Blm should go pick him up
KING IS A SPY // A REPORT SAID
North Korea needs to deport him back to the US and face the consequences
Big reveal they are war criminals!!!
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Bruh
Y’all think North Korean racist ?lol
Well, considering how the people in North Korea never seen a black person before, he’s gonna get a mouthful of racism than he ever experienced here in America.
US better not make some stupid negotiation trying to get this guy out of North Korea. Let him stay
The man defected to North Korea, because he was awaiting a prison term in the USofA and about to be transferred to Texas.
What does this tell us about the US and particularly of it’s judicial system?
And what does it tell us about North Korea?
Don’t let the United States fool you, King is a NOC aka a spy. It’s been done since time immemorial, if you want to know what another country is up to send in someone to be interrogated and if you play your cards right, their interrogation questions might tell you all you need to know. Remember the United States government is sneaky, corrupt and does whatever it wants lol
He was facing charges in the usa when he retirned due to his skin color nowadays they wont say much vad about hom however thats what i know about his deal.
Huh?
He should just tell them he’s related to Dennis Rodman.
No that’s not how it works to all the ones saying to let him stay there , he’s still a military member that serve , The man have an major medical mental problem just like y’all and he’s the US problem not NK , plus we need him out of NK before he give out any Military information and US information
James Dresnok reincarnated smfh 🤦🏿♂️
He got more balls than any soldier for doing that lol
Nope
Only to probably end up losing them in a concentration camp
U.S army celebrates
North Korea celebrates
I served a year in Korea. The sorry excuse for a soldier that ran across to NK is regretting it now I assure you! He laughed “hahaha” as he ran away, but rest assured he is being tortured by the NKPA as we speak! So…hahaha!
What talked?? The guy is and adult, he made a choice. Let him be, it’s his life.
What a fool fleeing to a country with no food to evade accountability. Don’t he know North Korea launches missiles when they’re hungry? 🤡
Does this !d!ot have stolen secrets?
If not, why is this news worthy?
He chose this.
Why the heck would we want to get him back? If he was stupid enough to think things will be better for him in NK go let him think that.
where’s the proof that he’s detained — north korea hasn’t reported anything yet ? just some professor saying that’s what he thinks would happen. bad reporting.
Warmbier was a civilian, yet he had hard time (possibly tortured) and died after came back to state. However, this guy is an enemy combatant. I am not sure if they (North Korea) will be more merciful. I highly doubt it unless he agrees to be an communist mouth piece.
So people can’t deal with the west anymore
Out of the pot straight into the frying pan. If he ever gets out of prison in N Korea he will have to be deported back to America to spend even more time in prison.
I hope he can outrun a bullet.